2007
MSP Summer
workshop
Questions for the reading for
workshop
Main applet sites
National
Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Class Zone (from
Lonnise)
List of applets used Click here
Activities-assorted by
days
Day 1: June 21
Technology Warm-Up
Applet and calculator activity: Skip
Counting and Hundreds boards
Practice: Entering
Calculations
Activity *
Technology-An Intro to Graphing Calculator
Basics: Lists and plots
Technology- Basic stat functions
Activity:
Missing
Values NCTM blackline master (if time permits)
Activity:
Day 2: June 22
Technology Warm-Up
Balanced
Scales Virtual Manipulative
Slope
applet
Activity:
Investigating Linear Relationships from Multiple
Perspectives
Technology- An Introduction to Graphing Calculator Basics:
Graphing Functions and Solving Equations.
Activity:
Algebra
Tiles continued : modeling polynomial multiplication, factoring, etc.
Activity:
Ups
and Downs Patterns NCTM blackline master (if time permits)
Technology: More with lists and sequences
Day 3: June 25
Breakout sessions:
Practice with graphing calculator
Modeling population
Activity:
Technology-CBL
(Calculator Based Laboratory) Voltage Experiment
Voltage Applet
Technology-CBR
( Calculator Based Ranger) Matching
distance and velocity graphs
Technology-Graphing collected data
Activity:
Graphs
to Stories NCTM blackline master
Stories
to Graphs NCTM blackline master
Activity:
Fund
Raising NCTM blackline master
Technology- Lists and their graphs
Applet (TBA)
Day 4: June 27
Breakout Sessions:
Toothpick
Patterns (NCTM blackline master) :for teachers grades 3-5
Interest
Problem for teachers grades 6 8
Technology- the spreadsheet
type features of the GC
Activity:
Activity:
What
is Linear?
Handout
1: Licorice activity
Handout 2: Perimeter and area activity
Handout 3: NCTM blackline master
Technology- Lists, functions and plots
Activity:
Factoring and algebra tiles
Technology
Algebra tiles applet
Day 5: June 28
Activity:
Probability I: What is Fair:
Dice and Distributions
Activity:
Technology-CBL
(Calculator Based Laboratory) Temperature Experiment
Activity:
Probability
II: Probability experiments and ratios
(NCTM blackline master)
Technology
Probability Applets
Wrap-up
Learning Goals
for Day 5:
1) Ability to relate two data sets using the
CBL. Also to understand nonlinear data.
2) Ability to understand the importance of the
Law of Large numbers in probability
3) Ability to recognize the importance of
fairness criteria in probability experiments